Murder accused ‘loaded’

WANTED man Zlatko Sikorsky was holed up with guns, ammunition, drugs and cash inside the Sunshine Coast unit where he held police at bay for more than 24 hours.

According to the dossier of charges faced by the accused murderer, police found Sikorsky with $6400 in cash, a handgun, a shotgun that had been altered to have its identifying number filed off or changed, methamphetamine, paint and an “alphabet” used to change car numberplates inside the unit in the heart of school holiday accommodation in the tourist strip.

Sikorsky’s case was briefly mentioned in Maroochydore Magistrates Court yesterday before being adjourned to Beenleigh, near where his alleged teen victim Larissa Beilby’s body was found in a barrel in the back of a ute.

According to the charges, police claim Sikorsky murdered the teen sometime between June 22 and June 28, when her body was discovered by officers investigating a missing person alarm. Police say meth, digital scales, clip seal bags and glass tubes used for supplying drugs were found at his home. He is also charged with torturing the teen and deprivation of liberty.

Sikorsky’s lawyer Brendan Ryan told the media his client was innocent.

Sikorsky did not appear and the case was put down for mention on September 3.

Two people accused of helping Sikorsky were also before the court yesterday on one count each of accessory after the fact. Tracy Ann Thomson, 40, is charged with helping Sikorsky in Mooloolaba or elsewhere in the state, along with the unit’s occupant, Joseph Dean Geiger.